E.coli-outbreak In Europe: Black Op? Options

[Devilsadvocate]

A friend just passed on the following article to me:

There's really only one way this happens (and only one way) -- you have to expose this strain of e.coli to all eight classes of antibiotics drugs. Usually this isn't done at the same time, of course: You first expose it to penicillin and find the surviving colonies which are resistant to penicillin. You then take those surviving colonies and expose them to tetracycline. The surviving colonies are now resistant to both penicillin and tetracycline. You then expose them to a sulfa drug and collect the surviving colonies from that, and so on. It is a process of genetic selection done in a laboratory with a desired outcome. This is essentially how some bioweapons are engineered by the U.S. Army in its laboratory facility in Ft. Detrick, Maryland

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032622_ecoli_bi...l#ixzz1P6mAS0fD

[amazed!]

I had wondered if this was the case. It certainly is plausible.

[Devilsadvocate]

I had wondered if this was the case. It certainly is plausible.

I was wondering about it as well.

When that whole thing with the avian flu was going on a while ago, the official line was "It's spread by migratory birds"- and so they kept monitoring the progress of those birds returning to Europe from Asia.
Then it turned up on the island of Rügen- strangely days before those birds reached Germany.
The authorities had no explanation.

This time around, the official line is "Sprouts!"- but strangely no traces were initially found in the samples from that farm which is now blamed.

The problem is that if this is actually something artificially produced, no government would be able to say so- for the simple reason that it would constitute an attack with weapons of mass-destruction on the civilian population.
So-- if they would say "this was artificially engineered", they would be pressurised into finding out where it came from.
To then declare this to be the work of "Al-Qaeda" would almost certainly result in the politicians being laughed of the stage. The mere idea of tribal Taliban-fighters in some cave in the Hindukush running a bio-engineering laboratory would just be too much...

And unfortunately that would leave very few alternatives. Biological warfare agents are not exactly available in the local supermarket either. The answers to the question "Where did this come from?" would almost certainly end up creating a huge headache.
Releasing something like that would be a direct attack on the Federal Republic of Germany.

Germany is currently involved in the war in Afghanistan- a fact which is highly unpopular with the German public.
Any German government would therefore have to face a very angry public- should it turn out that this was an attack with biological weapons.

What would they do- if they would find an answer to the question above...?

What if the answer to that question would be "It came from a US-weapons-lab" ?

What then- go to war with the United States of America- claiming that NATO must help them because this would be an attack on a NATO member-state?

That scenario would be unthinkable- and if this was indeed a bio-weapon, then those responsible would know it.

Obama wanted more support from Angela Merkel for the operations in Libya; so maybe it was meant as a hint with the sign-post (not that I think that Obama would even know about something like that; if it was a bio-weapon, and if it came from a US-laboratory, then only a handful of people would know anything about it.)

But if (and I can't reiterate that word enough-- IF!!!) it really was a bio-weapon, then it may have been more of a test-balloon then anything else:
Let's see how it spreads, and how they are going to react.
After all- compared with some of the stuff around these days, this was extremely harmless... Even though it killed two dozen people.

The Anthrax-attacks in the US in 2001 were almost certainly a 'Black Op' (in this case one designed to paralyze the US-parliament so that Bush could lift Executive Order 11905:

http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/eo11905.htm#SEC.%205.

Had Congess functioned, lifting that Executive Order (which had been issued by Gerald Ford in the seventies) would have been infinitely more difficult; and with that Executive Order still in place, the 'Patriot Act' would have been unthinkable.

Thus they did it before- and they hit their own people with it. Using those kinds of methods as a means to conduct foreign policy (and with that I mean the kind of "Indie-style"-foreign policy cooked up by the Theodor-Shackleys-of-this-world) might just follow naturally...

[onesliceshort]

Just a few bits and bobs about this "outbreak"..


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ter...ist-groups.html

Food and drink sold in Britain is under a growing threat from terrorist groups which might try to poison supplies, the Government’s security advisers have warned.
Manufacturers and retailers have been told that their sector is vulnerable to attacks by ideologically and politically motivated groups that may seek to cause widespread casualties and disruption by poisoning food supplies.
The warning from the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI), which operates as part of the Security Service, comes as experts warned the deadly E.coli outbreak in Germany has highlighted the vulnerability of the food chain and how quickly bacteria can spread.
The highly virulent strain has claimed 18 lives and left more than 1,800 seriously ill, with the true number of cases expected to be far higher.
A senior German doctor last night called for an investigation into the possibility that the bacteria had been spread deliberately.
Klaus-Dieter Zastrow, chief doctor for hygiene at Berlin’s Vivantes hospital, said: “It’s quite possible that there’s a crazy person out there who thinks 'I’ll kill a few people or give 10,000 people diarrhoea’. It’s a negligent mistake not to investigate in that direction.”

The European authorities have reported several differences from previous outbreaks, including that women make up more than two-thirds of those affected and that young and middle-aged adults account for a very high percentage of the most severe cases.
Dr. J. Glenn Morris, director of the Emerging Pathogens Institute of the University of Florida, said that the German strain might have undergone genetic changes or mutations to make it more potent.

The main killer is hemolytic uremic syndrome.

American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary
hemolytic uremic syndrome
n.
A syndrome in which hemolytic anemia and thrombocytopenia occur with acute renal failure, marked in children by sudden gastrointestinal bleeding, urine that contains red blood cells and is scanty in volume, and microangiopathic hemolytic anemia; in adults it is associated with complications of pregnancy following normal delivery, with oral contraceptive use, or with infection.

Other risk factors for HUS are unknown, although some cases are due to a familial form of the disease. HUS may occur with a variety of other diseases and infections, and after taking certain medications such as mitomycin C or ticlopidine.

Source

Mitomycin

Mitomycin is a type of antibiotic that is only used in cancer chemotherapy. It slows or stops the growth of cancer cells in your body. The length of treatment depends on the types of drugs you are taking, how well your body responds to them, and the type of cancer you have.

Other uses for this medicine

Mitomycin is also used to treat adenocarcinoma of the colon and rectum; squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, lungs, and cervix; adenocarcinoma and duct cell carcinoma of the breast; and bladder cancer.

Ticlopidine

Ticlopidine is used to reduce the risk of stroke in people who have had a stroke or have had warning signs of a stroke and who cannot be treated with aspirin. Ticlopidine is also used along with aspirin to prevent blood clots from forming in coronary stents (metal tubes surgically placed in clogged blood vessels to improve blood flow). It works by preventing platelets (a type of blood cell) from collecting and forming clots.

Food poisoning my a*se.

[onesliceshort]

The European authorities have reported several differences from previous outbreaks, including that women make up more than two-thirds of those affected and that young and middle-aged adults account for a very high percentage of the most severe cases.

Maybe just coincidence but...

http://www.swineflu.org/forum_posts.asp?TI...&PID=205035

According to two studies released this week, one from Canada and one from Mexico, young women with no underlying medical conditions seem to be hit particularly hard by swine flu if they become seriously ill from H1N1 swine flu symptoms, leaving some health officials even more worried than before.

Are Young Women Really More Susceptible to Swine Flu?

In the Canadian study, 113 women and 55 men were admitted to a series of 38 intensive care units with symptoms of H1N1 swine flu, ranging in age from 10 to 60 at an average of 32, with only 30 percent having previous underlying medical conditions. Overall, most within the first two weeks of admittance, 29 of the patients died, and of those, a striking 21 – a full 72 percent – were female.

In the study in Mexico, the only significant difference in number were the overall number of patients who died, which was 41 percent, mostly due to a lack of access to advanced medical care.

Why Are Women Getting Sicker, More Easily?

Dr. Anand Kumar, an intensivist with the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority and an associate professor of critical care and infectious disease at the University of Manitoba told the Vancouver Sun, that, frankly, "nobody knows;" usually in infectious diseases, it is males that are the hardest hit.

One theory has to do with the fact that the severe H1N1 swine flu symptoms seem to primarily concentrate on the respiratory system, where women are at a natural disadvantage, as they have smaller lungs. Excess fat tissue from obesity can further diminish lung capacity, and is shown to also be a risk factor for H1N1 swine flu.

http://www.examiner.com/National-Careers_and_Workplace.html

[REDSHIFT]

http://gulagbound.com/16886/germanys-e-col...the-plague-dna/
Reported in the Washington Examiner and The Wall Street Journal

The bug contains DNA from the Bubonic Plague, suggesting that this may not be a natural mutation but a weaponized version. According to an article in the Atlantic Wire:

[Devilsadvocate]

http://gulagbound.com/16886/germanys-e-col...the-plague-dna/
Reported in the Washington Examiner and The Wall Street Journal

So- this is the playschool-version of this crap then:

Incubation-period about 72 hours.
Diarhhoea, followed by disintegration of red blood-cells and kidney-failure after a few days.

Causes personality-changes; patients can't remember who they are and become 'remarkably agressive'.

The authorities are struggling...


The hardball-version of this must be quite interesting, then:

Incubation-period about 2-3 hours.
Diarrhoea, followed by multiple organ-failure within about 48-72 hours.

Causes major personality-changes; patients become extremely agressive...

Meaning they will attack just about anyone--- including doctors and nurses who will face hundreds or even thousands of patients.

And the authorities will be left wondering what... and who... from where... and what-the-hell...


I think I'll go for a long walk now.

[GroundPounder]

maybe the beta version of zombies 1.0

[Devilsadvocate]

I followed the link to the Washington-examiner-article from REDSHIFT's post:

http://www.examiner.com/independent-in-was...onic-plague-dna

it quotes an article in the 'Atlantic Wire':

On Tuesday, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that Karch had discovered that the O104:H4 bacteria responsible for the current outbreak is a so-called chimera that contains genetic materia from various E. coli bacteria. It also contains DNA sequences from plague bacteria, which makes it particularly pathogenic. There is no risk, however, that it could cause a form of plague, Karch emphasized in remarks to the newspaper.

The link to that article is dead; so far, I have not been able to find the article in the 'Süddeutsche Zeitung'.

What I did find was the article in the English language version of 'Spiegel Online' containing the same quote word for word:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/german...,765777,00.html

(I took the liberty of saving that before it disappears...)

Since 'Spiegel' refers to that article in 'Süddeutsche Zeitung' (while being subject to German laws), the article must have existed previously.
(If 'Spiegel' would "quote" an article from another publication which never existed, they'd find themselves in very hot water.)

In other words- that article has been 'pulled', and it looks as if quite a few people are following suit.

[KP50]

If "they" are looked at biological weapons then it is entirely to be expected that they are conducting live research into the effects and the speed and geography of the spread. It is a worry now that "they" will be able to introduce some sort of super-bug immune to our current medicines that will be able to wipe out large portions of a population. Right now, what they can't control of course is what happens once they release something out into the real world hence the need to manage the news in case it becomes widespread knowledge that it can only have come from a high-tech laboratory. Much easier to just leak a few worldwide stories about "terrorists" having access to such technology just to keep fear levels high.

[Devilsadvocate]

If "they" are looked at biological weapons then it is entirely to be expected that they are conducting live research into the effects and the speed and geography of the spread. It is a worry now that "they" will be able to introduce some sort of super-bug immune to our current medicines that will be able to wipe out large portions of a population. Right now, what they can't control of course is what happens once they release something out into the real world hence the need to manage the news in case it becomes widespread knowledge that it can only have come from a high-tech laboratory. Much easier to just leak a few worldwide stories about "terrorists" having access to such technology just to keep fear levels high.

Oh, "they" have been looking at all kinds of stuff--- for a long time...

The Olson family disputes the official version of events. They maintain that Frank Olson was murdered because, especially in the aftermath of his LSD experience, he had become a security risk who might divulge state secrets associated with highly classified CIA programs, many of which he had direct personal knowledge. A few days before his death, Frank Olson quit his position as Acting Chief of the Special Operations Division at Detrick, Maryland (later Fort Detrick) because of a severe moral crisis concerning the nature of his biological weapons research. Among Olson's concerns were the development of assassination materials used by the CIA, the CIA's use of biological warfare materials in covert operations, experimentation with biological weapons in populated areas, collaboration with former Nazi scientists under Operation Paperclip, LSD mind-control research, the use of biological weapons (including anthrax) during the Korean War, and the use of psychoactive drugs during "terminal" interrogations under a program code-named Project ARTICHOKE.[43] Later forensic evidence conflicted with the official version of events; when Olson's body was exhumed in 1994, cranial injuries indicated Olson had been knocked unconscious before he exited the window.[42] The medical examiner termed Olson's death a "homicide".[44] In 1975, Olson's family received a $750,000 settlement from the U.S. government and formal apologies from President Gerald Ford and CIA Director William Colby, though their apologies were limited to informed consent issues concerning Olson's ingestion of LSD.

In his 2009 book, A Terrible Mistake, researcher H. P. Albarelli Jr. concurs with the Olson family and concludes that Frank Olson was murdered because a personal crisis of conscience made it likely he would divulge state secrets concerning several CIA programs, chief among them Project ARTICHOKE and an MKNAOMI project code-named Project SPAN. Albarelli presents considerable evidence in support of his theory that Project SPAN involved the contamination of food supplies and the aerosolized spraying of a potent LSD mixture in the village of Pont-Saint-Esprit, France in August, 1951. (The French word "pont" translates to "bridge" in English; a synonym is "span".) The Pont-Saint-Esprit incident resulted in mass psychosis, 32 commitments to mental institutions, and at least seven deaths. In his work as Acting Chief of the Special Operations Division, Olson was involved in the development of aerosolized delivery systems, he was present at Pont-Saint-Esprit in August, 1951, and several months before he resigned his position he had witnessed a terminal interrogation conducted in Germany under Project ARTICHOKE. Other researchers have reached conclusions similar to Albarelli's, including John Grant Fuller, author of The Day of Saint Anthony's Fire, a landmark book that originally cited ergot poisoning as responsible for the events at Pont-Saint-Esprit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKULTRA

(Emphasis in above quote added by me)